Halo 1.03 Update Patch

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 6:59 pm

Weighing in at 4 Megabytes, the promised Halo PC 1.03 patch has been released. This offers a variety of great fixes, and is highly recommended for all Halo players. Changes include:
Addressing Team Killing
Servers now have a complete team killing / banning system that should significantly reduce team killing online. The concept is simple: team-kill a number of time and you will automatically be banned from the server for a period of time set by the server administrator. Because team kills can be accidental, the concept of grief also exists: following a team-kill, if you don't team-kill again for a period of time, you are forgiven for your team-kill. These settings are customizable by the server administrator(s) using server console commands.

Improving the Quality of the Online Experience
We've made a number of updates and bug fixes to our networking architecture, the most important one being specifically in how we transfer / predict player's movement / position as well as the action of reloading your weapon. While going into the details of these changes is beyond the scope of this document, the result should be a smoother online game experience across the variety of connections to the Internet.

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